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    The Age of Corporate Scandal and How it Could Save Democracy

    The surprising story of how corporate scandals - from Enron to the Facebook privacy scandal - change the way the world works for the better.Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee draw on a decade of research on policymaking and public opinion to show us how scandals can ignite a public with few political outlets for their discontent. Scandals don't simply dominate news cycles: they can provoke us to ... Read more

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  • Quiet Politics and Business Power

    Corporate Control in Europe and Japan

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Does democracy control business, or does business control democracy? This study of how companies are bought and sold in four countries - France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands - explores this fundamental question. It does so by examining variation in the rules of corporate control - specifically, whether hostile takeovers are allowed. Takeovers have high political stakes: they result in ... Read more

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    Billionaire Backlash

    The Age of Corporate Scandal and How it Could Save Democracy

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    Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How it Could Save Democracy, written and read by Pepper Culpepper and Taeku Lee**This audiobook contains a bonus conversation between the authors**The surprising story of how corporate scandals - from Enron to the Facebook privacy scandal - change the way the world works for the better.... ... Read more

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